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Exposing the Nation: Histories of Photography in Chile, 1860-1960

Exposing the Nation: Histories of Photography in Chile, 1860-1960

Pfaller, Matthias

Paperback

Series: Illuminations

Photography History & CriticismSouth American History

ISBN10: 0822967766
ISBN13: 9780822967767
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: Mar 3 2026
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.90 Depth: 4.30
Language: English
Is photography a Eurocentric practice that others its subjects? In Exposing the Nation, Matthias Pfaller makes the case with a review of a national historiography of photography and images produced in Chile over the course of a century. There are multiple photographies, and they have a variety of uses: science, politics, tourism, family traditions, ethnology, art. They appear in a diverse array of media: government albums, family albums, mass-produced postcards, exhibition prints, scientific records, and published books. Pfaller demonstrates the versatility of photography on the one hand, and the ways in which the national paradigm and modern historiography influenced the production and reception of photographic images on the other. It becomes clear that national photography is not a genre of its own, manifest solely in specific discourses. Rather, the nation, photography, and history are meta-discourses that pervade the very idea of Chile as represented through photography and the photographic image.

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